Rezi vs Apiva: a better résumé, or the application submitted? (2026)

We make Apiva. Read this knowing that.

Everything here about Rezi comes from their own pricing page, their extension listing and their Trustpilot profile, read 20 September 2026. This is the friendliest comparison we have written, because for most of what Rezi does we are not a substitute at all. Check both before you spend money.

The 10-second version

Rezi: a résumé builder, and a good one. Free tier, $29 a month for Pro, or $149 once for lifetime access. Their browser extension fills applications in one click. Trustpilot rates them 4.7 out of 5 from 269 reviews.

Apiva: you approve a job, software fills and submits the application, a person finishes what software should not guess, and the credit is spent only once the submission is confirmed. Free tier of 25 applications a month, no card.

Want the best résumé you can produce, and happy to send it yourself? Them.

Want the applications actually submitted and confirmed? Us.

What Rezi actually is

A résumé tool that takes the craft seriously.

That is meant as a compliment. Free gets you one résumé, one AI interview and three PDF downloads. Pro at $29 a month lifts the limits and adds their scoring and keyword targeting. There is an Enterprise tier at $99 a month per 200 users for universities and career services.

The lifetime plan is the interesting one. $149, paid once, no subscription. In a category where everything is a recurring charge, that is a genuinely different offer, and for anyone who expects to job hunt more than once it is good value.

All plans carry a 30-day money back guarantee, stated in the title of their own pricing page.

Then there is the extension. Their Chrome Web Store listing, published by Rezi LLC, describes autofilling job applications in one click across every major applicant tracking system. Their own write-up says the extension completes applications using your stored information.

Completes. Not submits. That distinction is theirs, not ours, and they are straightforward about it.

Different purchases that look similar from a distance

Someone comparing these two products is usually asking one question: what stands between me and an interview?

Rezi's answer is the document. Make it sharp, make it score, make it survive the filter. That is a real answer and a résumé that reads badly will sink you no matter how many you send.

Our answer is the submission. The form completed, the screening questions answered, the thing lodged with the employer and recorded as such.

These are not competing theories. They are two different bottlenecks, and which one is yours depends on where your search is actually stuck. If you are sending fifty applications and hearing nothing, your document is the problem and Rezi is a better purchase than we are. If the document is fine and the portals are what you dread, that is us.

We have written about the document side too, in how to write a tech résumé that actually gets found and résumé power verbs. Neither of those posts tries to sell you anything.

The overlap is narrow. It is the extension, and the last inch of what it does.

What Apiva actually is

You approve jobs from a feed built on 50,000+ US company career pages, rescanned on a daily cycle. Or paste any US job link you found yourself.

Software fills in the application, with your résumé rewritten for that role. You can review what changed before it goes.

When a form fights back, a person takes over and finishes it by hand. It pauses rather than guess.

The credit is held when you add a job and settles only when the submission is confirmed. If it fails, the credit comes back. That rule is enforced in the database.

Our public counter reads 1,396 confirmed submissions today.

We do not build résumés as a standalone product. The tailoring exists because an application needs a document attached, not because we are trying to win the tool you keep open in a tab.

Side by side

The money

Their pricing page publishes everything plainly, which after the rest of this category is a relief.

One thing worth checking yourself. Their pricing page cites Trustpilot at 4.7 out of 5 from 250 reviews. We went and looked, because self-reported ratings are worth verifying, and it holds up: 4.7 out of 5 from 269 reviews on 20 September 2026, under their rezi.io profile. Their claim is real, and if anything understated, since they quote 250 where the live page now shows 269.

Ours is a different shape because we sell a different thing. Free tier of 25 confirmed applications a month, no card. Starter $19 a month for up to 200 confirmed applications, Pro $39 for up to 600, top tier $99 for up to 1,500. Quarterly prices are published at $49, $79 and $239, live when quarterly billing opens. Credits reset monthly and do not roll over.

Comparing the two head-on is slightly unfair in both directions. $149 once against $19 a month looks decisive until you notice they are not the same purchase: one is a document you keep forever, the other is roughly ten cents per application that reached an employer. If you need both, buy both. They cost less together than most people expect. Details on our pricing page.

Where Rezi wins

The résumé itself. It is their entire business and they are better at it than we are. We tailor a document as part of applying. They built a craft tool, and if the document is your bottleneck you should buy theirs.

The lifetime plan. $149 once, no subscription, in a market where everything recurs. Nothing we offer competes with that structure.

Review standing, and it checks out. 4.7 out of 5 from 269 reviews, verified on 20 September 2026 rather than taken from their marketing.

A refund policy that exists. 30 days, money back, on every plan. Ours works differently because a failed application is never charged, but theirs is the more familiar protection and some people want exactly that.

The free tier is usable. One real résumé and three downloads is enough to finish a job application tonight without paying anyone.

Where Apiva wins

We submit, they complete. Their extension fills the form. The click is still yours, on every single application, which is fine until it is the fortieth one this week.

Billed on the outcome. The credit settles only on a confirmed submission and returns on failure, enforced in the database rather than promised in copy. Apiva structurally cannot charge for an application that did not land.

There is a record afterwards. Every confirmed submission is saved against the job. A résumé tool has no view of what happened after you downloaded the PDF, and is not pretending to.

A person on the questions that carry risk. Sponsorship, disability disclosure, anything where a wrong answer becomes a false statement under your name. Those stop and wait for a human.

Volume without the evening. 200 confirmed applications on a $19 plan is a different kind of month from 200 one-click fills you personally sat through.

Bottom line

If your applications are not landing interviews and you suspect the document, buy Rezi. The lifetime plan is good value, the reviews are real, and we are not a replacement for what they do.

If the document is already fine and the grind of actually submitting is what is stopping you, that is the entire reason Apiva exists, and 25 applications a month costs nothing to try.

Plenty of people should use both, and there is no conflict in that. Whatever you choose, go and confirm a few applications in the employer's own portal rather than trusting any dashboard, ours included.

Checked September 2026. Spot something outdated or wrong about either service? Tell us and we'll fix it.

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